jaconet
Americannoun
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a cotton fabric of light weight, usually finished as cambric, lawn, organdy, voile, etc., used in the manufacture of clothing and bandages.
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a cotton fabric with one glazed surface, used as a lining for the spines of books.
noun
Etymology
Origin of jaconet
1760–70; < Urdu jagannāthī, named after Jagannāthpūrī in Odisha, India, where the cloth was first made
Example Sentences
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Boston ladies, their skirts all passe- mentarie and furbelow, India silk and jaconet, crowded the chambers, swiveling their hoops and panniers like dames on clocks to navigate the doors.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
The English cloth called jaconet, used by some binders, is probably as satisfactory as any.
From Library Bookbinding by Bailey, Arthur Low
Guarding with jaconet prevents the threads which lie in the middle of the signatures from pulling through the paper.
From Library Bookbinding by Bailey, Arthur Low
Make end papers and fly-leaves of 60-pound kraft paper or 80-pound manila, guarded with jaconet on one side of the sheet.
From Library Bookbinding by Bailey, Arthur Low
Her frock was of straw-coloured jaconet muslin, cut low at the bosom and short at the ankle, so as to display her demi-broquins of Regency violet, crossing with many straps upon a yellow cobweb stocking.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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